Architect Greg Tisdall is selling the house he has just built in Rathgar
A large newly built-house on Harrison’s Row in Rathgar has come on the market asking €1.925 million through Felicity Fox.
Designed and built by architect Greg Tisdall, number 1 Brighton View, Dublin 6, is a sizeable six-bedroom home with eco-friendly features and the promise of reduced stamp duty.
It’s one of three houses built on a site off Brighton Road close to the junction of Terenure Road East and Rathgar Avenue.
Buyers will make considerable stavings on stamp duty. While some stamp duty is payable because of its 372sq m (4,000sq ft) size, there will be savings because it’s a newbuild. A second-hand house would attract stamp duty of €144,500, but based on its current site value, stamp duty on 1 Brighton View would be €29,050.
The spare, edgy design is balanced by the warming use and natural feel of granite, oak and brick, by fuel-burning open fireplaces, large picture windows and by the easy living, interchangeable nature of its spaces.
The core feature, literally and visually, is a solid oak stairwell soaring from the first floor entrance hall to the Velux-lit top of the house, its height and honeyed tones highlighted by a dramatically suspended light fixture.
The house is a lot bigger inside than its angular building shapes suggest. It is built on three levels over basement and has six bedrooms (one with a terrace and some which could be put to use as offices or study areas) and an open-plan kitchen, living, dining area with a sliding screen for partitioning and privacy.
It’s an energy efficient building with a BER A rating and has such sustainable technology features as solar panels, a concealed rainwater harvesting tank, heat pump and high levels of air tightness and insulation.
Nine-foot high ceilings everywhere (except in the basement where they are 8ft) add to the spacious feeling. The kitchen has an eye-catching centre island made of granite as well as a full range of cleverly integrated appliances.
The flooring, as elsewhere on this level, is of Jura marble and a rear wall of windows means that the living/kitchen area has views of the sheltered and landscaped garden.
The main, first floor en suite bedroom has a dressingroom and south facing terrace. Three of the other bedrooms are on this floor, the remaining two are on the velux-lit top floor.
The basement has a large, oak floored room which could be put to a variety of uses as well as a bathroom, utility room and provision for a sauna.
There’s a good back garden, and off-street parking.
1 Brighton View, Harrison Row, Rathgar, Dublin 6
Greg Tisdall of StudioD architects selling this large newly-built six-bed
Agent:Felicity Fox
